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"with examples" => Follows up by not giving examples to a bunch of entries "Confound your cultural relativism! People in my society, at least, agree on one co

"with examples" => Follows up by not giving examples to a bunch of entries "Confound your cultural relativism! People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. And will your software only be dealing with people named by your society?" "I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it. This is a common mistake – many “bad words” are not bad words in other languages, and some are used in names. Moreover, not every society restricts what words may be used in a name; it’s perfectly possible that someone’s name may have been established in such a jurisdiction."

spiffytech 5y ago
> People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. For context, patio11, the author of the original list (without examples), emigrated to Japan and has noted that it is (was?) common for computer systems there to have no idea what to do with his English name. This included his Japanese employer, who apparently assumed all employees would have Japanese names. > I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it. This problem is notorious enough to have a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- franciscop 5y ago
  I am a Spaniard (long & convoluted name) living in Japan, unfortunately I know what patio11 is talking about. I literally have to call today a place to "fix" an application after being rejected twice because "my name was wrong", we'll see how the spelling of my 31-character-long name goes.
- brigandish 5y ago
  How I wish this article and information gets translated into Japanese…
Uehreka 5y ago
I can do the bad words one: in Thai, the root word “porn” (pronounced like the English word “pawn”) can be loosely translated as “blessing” and forms the basis of many given names, surnames and place names. Any blacklist that includes the word “porn” will cut out a lot of totally normal Thai names like Siriporn or Pornrapat.

spiffytech 5y ago

> People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names. For context, patio11, the author of the original list (without examples), emigrated to Japan and has noted that it is (was?) common for computer systems there to have no idea what to do with his English name. This included his Japanese employer, who apparently assumed all employees would have Japanese names. > I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it. This problem is notorious enough to have a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

franciscop 5y ago
I am a Spaniard (long & convoluted name) living in Japan, unfortunately I know what patio11 is talking about. I literally have to call today a place to "fix" an application after being rejected twice because "my name was wrong", we'll see how the spelling of my 31-character-long name goes.
brigandish 5y ago
How I wish this article and information gets translated into Japanese…

Uehreka 5y ago

I can do the bad words one: in Thai, the root word “porn” (pronounced like the English word “pawn”) can be loosely translated as “blessing” and forms the basis of many given names, surnames and place names. Any blacklist that includes the word “porn” will cut out a lot of totally normal Thai names like Siriporn or Pornrapat.